Re: Democratic storytelling

[Julia Thompson]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Jim Sharkey wrote:

> Sundiver was more of a murder mystery with the Uplift universe as its
> background than the high space opera books that came after.

"High space opera"?  I've just kind of gotten something of a handle of
what "high fantasy" is ("hard science fiction" is easier to grasp,
somehow), but I'm not sure I've seen "high space opera".  I think this is
one of those things where I'll get the definition eventually if I'm given
enough examples of what is and is not "high space opera"; aside from the
aforementioned Uplift books, what would qualify?  And what wouldn't?

        Julia